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Page Turner: Farai Chideya on Fiction, Feminism, and Sophie
It’s hard to be a consumer of media these days and not encounter the work of author and multi-media journalist Farai Chideya. She founded the online journal Pop + Politics in 1995 (practically a lifetime ago in online years); authored three... Read more »
I Can Has Feminizm?
Simple Minds’ “Don’t You Forget About Me” could be heard ‘round the world this week, commemorating the untimely death of writer/director/producer John Hughes, whose films shaped many a feminist mind during the 1980s (Molly... Read more »
Bed, Bitch & Beyond: Shock and...Yawn.
My fellow bitches, let's talk about sex! Welcome to Bed, Bitch and Beyond, a frank and wide-ranging look at sex and relationships from a positive, feminist, non-judgmental, liberal--and liberated--viewpoint. And we welcome your viewpoint and experiences too. As we say in my native South, "y'all... Read more »
Books for the Anti-Princess Girl-Feminist
Peggy Orenstein grapples with it and so do many other feminist mamas, aunts, sisters, cousins, dads and uncles: what to buy your girl-feminist.
A Bitch reader named Maura... Read more »
Big Pharma Writes Script For Menopause Research
How did hormone replacement therapy become so popular for American women going through menopause? Well, it turns out that pharmaceutical giant Wyeth helped write many of the supportive scholarly articles about its own hormone replacement drugs. The... Read more »
Gay Commercials a la infoMania
Love Sarah Haskins’ hilarious critiques of media aimed at women? Check out comparably witty Bryan Safi’s analysis of homosexuality and media in another infoMania segment aptly titled, That... Read more »
Mimi My My! Eminem can't stop hating.
Thea Lim at Racialicious started an open thread to revisit this spring’s feud between Eminem, Mariah Carey, and her husband Nick Cannon. What seemed like another petty celebrity feud has turned ugly... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Margaret Knight, Queen of Paper Bags
Not to give you an excuse to expand your carbon footprint or anything, but did you know that every time you forget your cloth bags at the grocery store you’re probably making use of a woman-invented product? That’s right; the flat-bottomed paper bag was invented by none other than... Read more »
I Can Has Feminizm?
It’s the weekend again, and while in some cultures that might mean a well deserved break from work and an afternoon of drinking beer on the porch, here at the Bitch blog it means FEMINIZT LOLz! (You know you love ‘em.)
This cat heard on NPR that... Read more »
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